Desert Becomes Greenhouse: a Dialogue between Human and Desert, Let’s See How Barren Land Creates Hundreds of Billions of Output Value | CBCGDF Media Reports

China is no exception in preventing and controlling desertification. The Hexi Corridor borders the desert, preventing and controlling sand, and coexisting with sand. How did the dream of creating hundreds of billions of output value in barren land become a reality? This is closely related to two remarkable old men.

Desertification is called the "cancer" of the earth and is a severe challenge faced by modern human society since the second half of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, Qian Xuesen, an outstanding scientist in my country, worked for a long time at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base in the heart of the Badain Jaran Desert Gobi. He thought about and pioneered the theory of the sixth industrial revolution from the medicinal use of a hay in the Gobi Desert, including the concept of sand industry.

Mr. SONG Ping, who has worked in Gansu for a long time, is full of deep concern for the production and life of the disadvantaged groups in the west. Controlling sand has also become the concern of this centenarian. In a work report by LIU Shu, Honorary Chairman of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) and former Vice President of the China Association for Science and Technology, the ideas of Prof. QIAN Xuesen and Mr. Song collided with dazzling sparks. The sand industry practice in the Hexi Corridor was also born.

As the successor of Qian and Song's sand industry ideas and practices, LIU Shu is now in his 80s, and her heart is still on deserts and sand industries. Now, we review this long dialogue between people and deserts through the video "Hexi Corridor Sand Industry" shared by Liu Shu and TIAN Yuzhao, former deputy director of the Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey Committee of the National Development and Reform Commission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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